Lee Priest: The Most Controversial Man in Bodybuilding

Le priest underappreciated jack of all trades and a master of many he was the most impressive guy I've ever seen to this day even that includes Ronnie Coleman and everyone else Le what's it like to compete with those big guys use the word tall not big more people have had the Olympia than I've had a lifetime being so I'm in a unique Class A bunch of Hypocrites here we have Melissa de NPC comped Melissa in the desert getting some wild Ang West it's called hey lady oh you know that's going to go on the internet

right religious people the most judgmental people in the world this is SE right he's talking [ __ ] about me on here you're going to have offended at least one person in every single class on earth like I give a Fu when entering the conversation about the best arms in bodybuilding the name Lee Priest always finds its way into the list but when the conversation shifts the most most controversial characters in the sport that same name certainly takes the number one spot standing at a mere 55 in Lee was one of the largest pound-for-pound bodybuilders

around and one of the sports youngest Pros labeled the Giant Killer he was able to routinely beat guys much bigger than him and was the reason Ronnie Coleman almost quit bodybuilding in 1997 known for his brutal honesty as much as for his freakish arm development Lee was always in the Limelight for his controversial opinions steroid use transparency and constant criticism of the ifbb landing himself multiple suspensions before being banned for life from ever stepping on an ifbb stage from getting bullied as a child for having a gay father being disowned and committing Sude to being

one of the biggest names in the sport this is the story of the most controversial man in bodybuilding this is cast where I'm from I'm really from war in which is about 15 minutes that way I think my mother when I was young was going to call me Dwayne after some movie star but then Lee M come on TV a 6 million doll me so she called me Lee and then he was never muscular but you know he was always lifting up things and my mom used to tell the story that I'd always carry my

sister around and she hated it because I just pick her up and carry her around everywhere cuz I just like testing myself out doing stuff lifting stuff I remember when I was young I put the car in the driveway and take the handbrake off and just push the car backwards and forwards my mom and dad divorced when I was about 3 or four cuz my mother discovered my father was gay but back then she thought she could change him now they separated and then I sort of was living with my mom I see my dad

on the weekends and then my grandparents also raised me in that too his grandfather Owen helped him all the way through and started him on the weight training and started him in bodybuilding even when he was like 72 he was leg pressing 800 lb and stff he had 800 on it this one time came down on the 19th rep snapped his knee snapped his ankle broke broke both his leg I think around when I was 13 12 that was when Rocky 4 come out no feelings Ro no feelings I did a lot of just stuff

at home like the chinups and the situps or he just had his shoulders on the bench doing the leg raises and stuff like that but then um I never really wanted to be a bodybuilder I just did it because I wanted to look like He-Man He-Man the most powerful man in the universe I knew who Arnold was and Tom Platz and that but I never really looked at the body I said it was always just a he-man figure and the action dolls they're always so freaky and then about 13 I started going to a gym

and someone says Le develop K as his school boys class which was for 18 years and under you should go in that and my mom thought I never would because I didn't really like team sports I hated anything where people watched you I did Karate I was good at that but then you know when you go grading and you got to do the Carters and stand down in front of the whole class and do that I just didn't like it and you know when you're doing karate you got to make those noises when they throw

punches and stuff I hated doing that I hated being loud so when I finally told my mom I'm going to go on stage and compete she's like you're actually going to walk out on stage and a little pair of posing trunks are you in front of people I'm like H I'll give it a go so I must admit I didn't go to his first comp from which I was very sorry afterwards but why bother going he's never going to make it on stage and of course he did any W when I was 13 years old

that's when I done my first free contest and won them at 13 yeah and then at 14 I did a men's open and placed third in a men's open class against guys 20 30 years old adults and then 50 and I think I won my first State title but it wasn't probably until number 28 Le I won my first Mr Australia at 17 and got runner up in the universe and I thought I might keep doing it Lee found out when he was 12 or 13 that his father was gay I'd kept it from him

all these years which was a stupid thing to do thinking I was protecting him and I said well we just didn't get on that's why we broke up when it did come out and everyone at school was calling Lee a and know your dad's a f and and at the time when Lee started bodybuilding and he was shaving his legs oh yeah yeah you're just going to be like your dad you know you're going to be a queer and the the taunting and the hurt that he went through and his father disowned him because he

changed his name to um priest my mother remarried and my stepfather's name was Priest and priest was easier than saying mchen so I just used the name priest but everything legally is still McCutchen so his father disowned him had nothing to do with him and that really hurt Lee he was the sort of the Class Clown because he was so hurt with all the homosexual taunts he got and he was just getting them every day every day at school he was in trouble all the time A teacher told me you know oh your son I

don't like him at all he had a friend Barry who offered him a job I think he was only 14 he said he's got a business and he'll let Lee work for him if I I would let him out of school and I thought oh gosh cuz all he wanted to do by them was be a bodybuilder this job enabled him to train so we had to get special permission for Lee to leave school I knew I was doing the right thing for Lee and I thought I haven't got anything much going on in my

life I'll I'll try and train and then when I was 17 I just want to Mr Australia she's like if I get in shape will you do the couples with me cuz I had couples back then mhm and my mom was sort of overweight she likes eating like me I said if I train hard could I be your partner and we could do the doubles together and he just looked you know give me this look of horror and said you get rid of your fat guts your fat ass and your fat tits and I'll think

about it eight8 months later she got in shape I'm like oh [ __ ] now i' got to go on stage with my mom how embarrassing but yeah we did it together and we were the first mother and son in the world to compete together and win a coup's title and then when I was 18 going 19 like i' done the world champion ship in place fourth and then the following year they wanted me to do the World Championships again as a lightweight and to do the World Championships you got to be drug tested and

I was drug tested twice before leaving both negative cuz I knew would be I was only still a lightweight on 70 kilos so sadly comes I compete due the prejudging go back to the finals I knew a lot of guys from the year before they're like our judge has you first our judge has you first you're going to win it I said look until I get the trophy in my hand I don't [ __ ] want to hear that [ __ ] it wasn't until the night show I was going back out on stage I

got the old come here off the side I went over and they like he came up positive on the drug test I'm like how the [ __ ] I haven't taken anything I'm like [ __ ] this and I had to leave and go to the hotel I'm looking over the balcony should I jump no I'll call my mom remember calling my mom was only 19 I sort of started crying think but I haven't [ __ ] taken anything I was like this is how an innocent guy feels when he's like you're guilty and you

haven't done anything and my mom said look my son come up positive over there just a couple of days later can this happen I said well it shouldn't but we can test him here as soon as gets home they said well be $375 my mom said I don't care I'll pay it but the thing was because I was a member of the ifbb that sporting organization we had to get their permission and they said don't test him again and then my B sample cuz you always got to test the B sample it went missing you

probably say was my first screwing from the ifbb ever the good thing about that was that night after the show I probably had about 15 or 18 competitors come to my room and give me gifts cuz they just said that was [ __ ] [ __ ] he was so hurt and he found me he was actually crying at the airport and I think this young fell thinking he could change the world become cynical on the outside he was so hurt he was devastated so I get back to Australia my mom had this trophy made

for me saying world champion I said well that's nice but then the newspapers are saying Lee Priest drug cheat I'm like oh so at 19 because I've been living I moved out of home went up was living at the back of a gym I'd cleaned the gym at night and clean Factories at night from like 10: at night to 4:00 in the morning to make money I just had this room out the back of the gym was stuff and I'm just sitting there and I just just think [ __ ] I shouldn't be living a

g I probably should have had a pro card now and now can bake beans out of a tin how much lower can I get oh man like this I'm going to [ __ ] my WR stung that bad that's what sna me out of it maybe not M you better come go to hospital like what you do that for I'd won to Mr Australia when I was 17 they said I was too young to turn professional anywhere else if you win the national title you turn professional so they denied me a pro card so I

won again when I was 18 won again at 19 so I'm not doing it again so finally got on the gear said I'm going professional there so started taking a bit of test Australian and Decker and put on 20bs in 8 weeks in fact Lee labr came to Australia to guess PA in Brisbane in 1990 or 91 he wanted Lee Priest not allowed to go on the stage that night cuz Lee had just competed and look better than him lbr tried to put a knock on him that night 19 um a guy L used to

run this um American Muscle show on ESPN so he flew me to America to do the Fall's amateur show he owed me money I PID my own way you come over here and you said you reimburse me never did it like you do to everybody else son of a [ __ ] okay back to this when I was in Gold's Gym Jim Manion was there he runs the ifbb now an NPC and he said what are you doing I said the NOA Force he goes what have you done I said well I've won the M

Australia this many times you're like well why don't you have a pro card I said they won't give me one so he called up Wayne de at the time he was running the pro division they contacted Paul gra in Australia and I got my Pro card and I was originally gone to America for two weeks and my first week at Golds they took some photo sent him to Joe weeder I got a contract so two weeks turned into 18 years winning his Pro card at the age of 20 was an event that marked Lee as

one of the youngest bodybuilders to ever turn into an ifbb Pro he continued racking of high placings against goliaths who were many inches taller and many pounds heavier than the 5'5 and 200 lb Lee Lee what's it like to compete with those big guys use the word tall not big those guys are six foot and their measurements are the same as mine that makes them the small guys in 1994 he was invited to compete in the Arnold Classic for the first time where he placed seventh as Kevin levrone went on to win the title Lee

then competed in four more shows placing as high as fourth at the Iron Man Pro Lee's first brush with the ifbb came this year when he qualified for both the Mr Olympia and the Houston pro show would have been 21 I qualified for my first Olympia so I went to visit Joe and said look I'm still young I'd rather do to Mr Olympia can I sit out the Houston pro show and not do it he's like sure that's fine that's a good idea and because I didn't do that I got suspended and when I spoke

to Wayne de milon said look Joe weer said I didn't have to do it I got the all I run these [ __ ] shows not Joe weer I got a 12mon p I started a company ifbb Pro division Inc my company I paid taxes it wasn't a federation the ifbb recognized me to run Pro bodybuilding it was my company so yeah if I acted like a dictator at times like Sean said yes I did actually the suspension went till a month after the Olympia for had to pay a $5,000 fine some my suspension could

be lifted it's funny how suspensions get lifted if you pay a fine but in total I think I ended up paying over the years 177,000 fines he was always outspoken and transparent even in seminars where he'd talk about what steroids he used down to the exact dosages which always got him in trouble with the ifbb yeah don't take the DEA with the stazo use the prim of all I was in England once and they talking about drugs and I said how much I use a test and they're like okay whatever like I've heard you take

this much I'm like yeah I've heard I've taken that too but I'm the guy that [ __ ] injects it into myself I know what I'm taking I said look if I took 20,000 milligrams I [ __ ] tell you I don't give a [ __ ] I took gear at 19 but I done everything naturally beforehand okay here you go look that's 19 I still natural is the lightweight you natural there yeah see the [ __ ] there you go come across come across here now that's that's the 19 but it towards the end

[ __ ] the difference toward yeah 20b of muscle put on when Tom plants hosted a show where he interviewed the biggest names in bodybuilding about their steroid use all of them opted to conduct the show anonymously all except for Lee after paying a fine and getting the suspension lifted Lee continued to steadily make improvements throughout 1995 and 1996 With His Highest Place being a third place spot in the 1995 Iron Man Pro behind only Flex wheeler and Aaron Baker by now Lee was a solid fixture in the industry Spotlight his hard old school approach

to training hard eating and brutal honesty firmly cemented him as a fan favorite but 1997 was the year the 25-year-old EST lished himself as a force to be reckoned with when he took third in each of the ifbb Grand Prix Germany Grand Prix Hungary and Grand Prix Spain behind Kevin levrone and Nasser Elm body while beating much bigger guys like Paul deette Chris Cormier and Ronnie Coleman and at the Iron Man Pro he took second after a hard-fought battle with flex wheeler who'd won his third Iron Man title in a row Lee also made his

Mr Olympia debut that year against a stacked lineup where he placed fifth before being relegated to sixth place after a scoring change most famously though 1997 was the year that he almost mentally broke a young and upcoming Ronnie Coleman like Ronnie Coleman at time Mr Olympia he was on that um you ever see that value entertainment podcast they're like Ronnie what's your greatest disappointment was it when Jay Cutler beat you that like losing to uh Lee Priest at which one the pro the7 9 97 Iron Man Pro you you got third he got second I

think right or something like that that was the most painful yeah cuz I I had quit after that well the next year I quit what bothered you about losing to Lee he was a little guy I was a big guy I think you lost five times that year two more the year before I was five times depressed yeah I said really it was seven but don't don't tell him so after a marathon of 10 shows in 1997 Lee decided to focus us exclusively on the 1998 Olympia dorian's untimely exit left the top spot open and

the growing excitement for the new era parent was palpable however and to the shock of everyone the same guy who placed ninth last year came in completely transformed and scored a major upset eeking out the favorite Flex wheeler Lee looked as good as last year muscular and ripped but didn't get many call outs In the comparison round and many thought was overlooked this year as he took seventh place over the next few years he continued to get similar placings after all Lee was never one to compete for a high placing I was always suspended so

I knew sometimes I'd always be held back on my placings but that didn't bother me because I was never there to win a show because most of my money I made was from contracts endorsements traveling every time I did in the Olympia I was always like look I aimed for the top 10 because back then if you got the top 10 that qualified you for next year so that took a bit of stress off having to qualify so if I aim for 10th and I got seventh or eight that's just a bonus to me so

I never even wored about the placing really I never really liked the competing side I always loved the training side even when I was professional you know I enjoy going to contest and the Expos because you get the meat all the fiend and stuff but generally when you got sponsors and stuff in contracts it's like you must compete so many times a year and stuff so in 2001 Lee only competed in the Iron Man Pro where he took seventh it was apparent that he was way off his usual form but in reality it was beyond

remarkable that he' even made it to the stage the 28-year-old was in spectacular shape a month out from the contest 3 weeks out he was rushed to the hospital suffering from tightness in his chest shortness of breath and a dangerously high temperature he received a diagnosis that his left ventricle was operating at 40% efficiency a heart medication was prescribed and Lee was told to pass on any activity let alone appro bodybuilding contest for at least a month not wanting to let down his fans he left the hospital and got back into the gym after some

time off the stage and taking drag racing is a new hobby Lee not only recovered but came back better than ever he was known for his huge offseason shape where he would gain a significant amount of fat it wasn't unusual for him to drink a liter of full cream milk and eat a whole chicken and a half a loaf of a bread for a meal in 2002 at 205 shredded pounds Lee took fourth in the Arnold Classic and was second to Chris Cormier at the Iron Man Pro who won his fourth title that night they

would get a rematch in the San Francisco Pro show where things would get heated up between Lee and the ifbb once again Lee was trailing Chris by two points after the prejudging but managed to score straight ones in the posing and POS down rounds and bested Chris to record his first ever Pro win Wayne de Mia 2002 athletes meeting before the San Francisco Pro Show get there early me I'm just sitting there Wayne comes in H I need to speak to you musket development article come up about the politics in the sport and within 5

minutes we're in a yelling match and I said Dwayne well it's happened he goes yeah I said well if you're the head of the fbb or running it at the moment and you know it's happening it shouldn't be [ __ ] happening he goes well you shouldn't mention I said well why shouldn't I mention it it's happening isn't it's not a lie goes well you shouldn't be put magazines and I was backstage just Tiding up and Wayne comes over he's like so how do you feel I said well to be honest I said I'm surprised

I one after a big argument we had the day before in that article you ask why do I do what I do he goes I'll tell you why he goes because I can suspend you and do whatever to you and that scares the other guys so the other 99 guys out there or whoever are going to do exactly what I say so there was so much politics there was so much who slept with who you know he just could not come to grips with what he thought he was aiming for all his life wasn't meant

by how good you looked on stage they were told he was going to win before before they got on stage because there was some judges female cuz Wayne got he saying men judges sleep with compers cuz like some of the judges I knew CU my friend was friends with some compers and he dated one of the judges and she's like I don't care how such and such looks I'm always going to put him first and all this sort of [ __ ] so illusionment grew alongside his frustration over the status quo and he was increasingly

critical of the ifbb treatment of its athletes locking them into contractual Whistle Stop tours with packed competition itineraries hurting them like cattle and treating them like animals the battle for the Olympia DVDs which athletes were forced to do and poorly timed contest VIP meet and greets were conducted at the athletes expense with zero compensation articles magazine covers and appearances forced athletes to participate at promotional events without a single penny paid failure to dance to the ifbb tune risked suspension and tens of thousands in fines his respect for the judges hit a new low when a

visibly inferior Ronnie Coleman beat a sharp Kevin lone in that Year's Olympia in which Lee took sixth by 2003 Lee was sick of competing and thought of skipping this year's Mr Olympia I didn't want to do that show I mean like you know if you're got to get ready for a show you got to be 100% on done at all and that showed I just didn't feel it that year I'd diet for a week so strict and then couple of days McDonald's then I go back on the diet I'm like I can't keep doing this

so I went online they gave to look I'm going to beat the Expo yeah but I can't compete my mind's not in it and you know your fans MH how can you do that we want to see you up there we've brought tickets to come see you this just went on and I think [ __ ] now I'm going to L down they're going to [ __ ] hate me okay I'll do it in the leadup to the contest he questioned why so many athletes returned home without a penny and he demanded greater transparency regarding

the show's finances what kind of money you making at this time at the Olympia I can tell you the money on the Olympia close to 600,000 we were making like 27% of the gross a normal business if you do 10% you're doing great normal is 8% we were doing 27 28% is that what the athletes were upset about the fact that they could got a more cash out of it this question is for Lee Priest and it goes back to the money issue I've read in musker development and on the internet that you have been

planning on sharing your prize money with the athletes at place out of the prize money when you have a show like the Olympia where people have to qualify to be here and you have the guy who came 15 16 training just as hard as me and I get money and he doesn't I just don't see it's fair so but what I said to him is put it in writing all he had to do was put it in writing but he didn't but but I did sit up last night and I did put it in writing

[Applause] [Music] so what was written in the letter I just said Wayne please pay the athletes or something about can we pay the athletes from 10th place down at least $1,000 similar what the Arnold Classic was doing because the Arnold gave competitors at least $1,000 as who spoke to Carrie K who was with Darian Yates nutrition at the time in that and he he said he was going to put up a th000 then Wayne said he'll match it so everybody got 2,000 Le unshakable Mala took hold resulting in a 15th Place showing his lowest ever

and his last time on an Olympia stage at the 2004 Iron Man Pro however Lee proved that his 15th Place finish was more fluke than fact he weighed the same when he'd won his first pro contest at the San Francisco Grand Prix 2 years ago but he looked 215 lb on stage his freaky arms were massive beyond what even his most loyal followers have been accustomed to his abdominals looked to be etched in stone he had deep striations all through his upper body but his Nemesis proved to be his quads glutes and hamstrings which have

never matched the superior conditioning of the rest of his body Dexter jacksson recognizing the flaw was more than happy to remind the judges and the fans of these softer backside by pointing to it during the judging it was Dexter's first show since he beat J Cutler at the GNC show of strength last November his conditioning was razor sharp as always he was superb from all angles with a symmetrical detailed body that continued to change for the better eventually he got the nod over Lee who ended up in the runnerup spot in both this show as

well as the San Francisco Pro bodybuilding fans and judges weren't the only on ones who took notice of Lee's great physique though a couple of years prior Hollywood did too you actually pled the Hulk puny hum you know when they say they want a bodybuilder you turn up and you're too big they just want a guy who's in shape but I think about a Hulk they can't say I'm too big so I went up there and because I was in contest shape you could see all the veins the muscles moving and Ang lead to producer

had one of those suits on with all the motion capture stuff on so everything the hul did in the movie I had to do where he's swinging that tank around I was swinging around a bag of sand on a piece of rope where he's fighting the dogs I'm just slamming bags of sand together so all the sort of stuff then they took my image put in the computer and then spilt from that and then when the second movie came out with Edward Norton I did the same thing but for the video game back in 2004

there was another animosity Brewing within the ifbb for weeks rumors have been circulating that Wayne demilia an industry lynchpin and the man largely responsible responsible for steering the ship for the previous 20 years had been fired as Pro division director over a reported contract dispute with ifbb President Ben weer regarding the production of the 2004 olymbia weekend eventually these rumors were confirmed Wayne left the ifbb and established Pro division Inc or PDI a new Federation that promised to shake off the cobwebs and take the sport in a new direction of entertainment and judging standards and

if the relationship with the ifbb had been sour with Wayne in charge under the new management it was downright toxic they didn't how to treat the people right and I don't know what happened it went downhill Lee was set to present an award at the 2005 Olympia but ifbb director Robin Chang informed Lee's sponsor twin lab that he was not even permitted to set foot on the Olympia stage absent from the Olympia for the second year in a row Lee returned home for the 2005 ifbb Grand Prix Australia where he took first and edged out

Chris Cormier for his second ever Pro victory he also took second in the same years's Iron Man Pro and first in the 2006 competition however bodybuilding got stale for Lee after more than a decade of competing in the same Federation that he had a gripe with against the same competitors and with the same judging system that he wasn't a fan of deia's PDI was promising to be an instrument of change especially as Lee always wanted to create new opportunities for future generations of bodybuilders I remember when you won the Iron Man Pro I mean you

were on top of your game I mean I thought you were going to go to the Olympia and be top you know three or four at that point why did you leave at that point what now was like I've been with the ifbb so long and then Wayne was starting up this new organization I just figured you know I'd give it a go and people like oh look at Lee he's throwing this in the ifb's face he's trying a new thing because to me it was like I just a different organization competing with different people

it's just something new to try because I've been with the I for 14 years it was never let me shove this in your face I'm going to do this to you it's just you know you've been a job for so long you just want to try something different and that's all it was well you know it's a bodybuilding show it doesn't conflict with any ifbb shows I'm an independent contractor the ifbb is not paying me I actually pay to be a member of the ifbb yeah I think hell I do the show but that would

land him in some serious trouble with the ifbb Joe we had established that ifbb Pros who compete in competing organizations would get temporarily or permanently banned from the organization I got a year suspension and then Bob was like well if you don't do the other show I'll just be one year if you do it be two years I said look I signed on the do to show I'm happy to take the twoyear suspension if those are the rules they're the rules I'll take the twoyear suspension which I did if I do the PDI show my

fans go and watch it they pay tickets they go watch it if I do an ifpv show month later my fans go watch it so everyone's still making money but they say you broke the number one rule so I said come on I said when do you stick to these rules I said in the rule book it says to you can't use anabolic steroids there's things about pornography type stuff I said I can pick out a few guys doing [ __ ] like that here we have Melissa NPC comped nice girl here's Melissa in the

desert getting some wild angled West it's called You know Denise Maro she's a pro bodybuilder I'm just pretending I'm a young girl going online looking up this Denise m.com to see how she trains because she can feat in the Artic oh look at this this is all ifbb approved too by the way so I think somewhere in the code of ethics this comes under fines and suspensions you know what I did wrong I went and competed in a bodybuilding show to make money and I got suspended but I think this might be my next venture

the longevity track record for rival bodybuilding organizations has always proved fragile and Amelia's PDI soon folded under mounting pressure on him and his Health the ifbb later acquired it and renamed it the now prestigious New York Pro Lee soon found himself in hot water with his sponsor twin lab after some disparaging remarks he made against some of their supplements and missing salary his lucrative $110,000 contract with muscular development and its supplement subsidiary was then promptly terminated in fact it wasn't the first time Lee's honesty got him in trouble with a sponsor muscle tech I had

a threeyear contract with muscle tech and after eight months I got out of it because they're saying Lee Priest says this is the best product ever and blah blah I said I didn't say that that product [ __ ] it seemed like Lee's outspokenness got him shunn by people inside and outside the ifbb and even some fellow competitors took a similar stance I saw J Cutler he was at um golds in Scot stale and he walked past me probably bit closer say hello stubs me might seeast me again and my friend Scott was working at

his me store when he had V and he asked J you see me and say hello J like no I would look good Mr Olympia was seen talking to a suspended athlete but most notoriously was Lee's rivalry with Shawn Ray you you don't like Shawn Ray you you've been on record as saying you don't like Shawn Ray I don't even I don't even know how that whole thing started between me and him I think it started years ago where remember Lori Donley when I was engaged with Lori Donley and Sean said to my friend Eric

I was lead talking bad about me and my friend er's like Le doesn't even mention you why would he goes ah because I've been banging his ex Lor Donley and stuff like that and er's like Lee doesn't even know Lee doesn't care it's his ex for a reason so there's just little things like this where sha would always do stuff and try you know Sean's like he tries to dig that little nail in and give a Twist here and there and like I said Shan as a bodybuilder was fantastic great bodybuilder you got to give

him credit for that but as a person and a human being said he was a piece of [ __ ] what is the one thing that came out recently that provoked you to to respond to him there's been another instances before but the last one was the 212 recently priest in conversation with respect to me um there is no conversation it wasn't a physique that was ever going to beat me never did and it didn't beat a lot of guys that I was routinely beating when he makes an argument he talks about you know bodybuilding

he talks about you know sport but you kind of you kind of took it into a more personal Direction at least on a record right I mean you kind of went at him hard I mean you said some things that some people might find very offensive so he's talking [ __ ] about me this is Sean Ray he's talking [ __ ] about me on here now now that I think about it Sean will probably win because you know he's probably better at sck and [ __ ] so he'll wi you know like you see

his face is brown not because he's a black guy it's because it's the [ __ ] from all the [ __ ] ass his kid Sean has said many personal things about me so just because I come back and attack him like I said I want to ATT him bodybuilding wise but you know personal wise I don't have any thoughts on Lee Priest other than it's a tragic study of what not to be kid had it all pissed it all away now he's begging for money selling his trophies typically when you're addicted to drugs and

you got a failed career you hate people that are doing well and so Lee Priest has a lot of issues with me I like how he says drug addict well Sean and I use the same drugs you did steroids and stuff so if we get that the trophy thing that's the thing because I always get emails letters Lee are you going to ever sell some of your stuff i' like to own something of yours even young kids in their garage they'll send me photos they're like here's your trophy here that's inspiring us to train I

said well that's better I said for 20 years they been sitting in a box I just move them from place to place and they get broken or [ __ ] but now they're inspiring people to train I said so how much that's you know that's what it should be doing so after Le's 2ear suspension from the ifbb things took a turn for the worse and in 2018 I got my Pro card back and at the same time my grandfather passed away so I moved back home to Australia and from like 09010 I was guest posing

for the ifbb in Australia New Zealand and stuff like that and just because my grandfather passed away and when I moved back home I was going to get ready for a contest and he was going to help me but because he wasn't there I just lost that passion and fire so what made me pretty much give up bodybuilding the plans of coming back and training with him didn't work out and that's when I said I lost the world of train so around 2010 I was just like you know what I just don't have that passion

anymore to compete so I just let my Pro card lapse and then renew it and but then I started doing a radio show on that radio show I talk about the politics good and bad but because they did that they said okay now he suspended for life but I was meant to go to I think it was Sweden or somewhere like that uh just do an appearance in a seminar at an ifbb show promoter had the posters done up the tickets done up and two weeks before the show he called me up saying Lee I

can't bring you the ibbs just notified me if I bring you I lose my ifbb sanction and I'll suspend all the athletes and all by the way they told me you're suspended for life so I actually found out from a promoter who I was meant to go to an ex like even black skull if black skull sponsored one of the shows in America they wouldn't even let me attend an expo which I find funny because an expo is open to the public I remember one of the companies when they put up a banner of me

they told they weren't allowed to have a banner of me up at an ifbb show when I got suspended for life that's like I said I I had a contract with MD at the time and once I got suspended MD was told to dump me which they did other companies dump me which they did I wasn't allowed to attend even in Australia the ifbb shows in Australia where had friends at competing even into amateur I'm not allowed into an ifpv amateur show to go support my friends still trained a bit but the competing I just

didn't have the half think I'd get ready for a show and then I wouldn't get ready for a show so when they asked me in 2013 to do the universe things just felt right again Lee made an unforgettable return at the 2013 NABA Mr Universe where he won the overall title did this one just for the fans and my friends and family I had nothing to G I just want to come do it all for you so thank for coming [Applause] out not too sure right now might go retire again now but unfortunately this comeback

was cut short by an accident in 2015 you know maybe some people like me some people hate me but who am I oh he's a troublemaker he's a bad boy he's controversial they want to remember me for being an [ __ ] fine they remember that LE priest he was a racist that's fine my mother always taught me always tell the truth no matter what then people used to say Lee shut your mouth you got good money coming in you do well at contest but it's not about that it's about the guys who bust their

ass just like me who train just as hard just like me who weren't making a dollar I was standing up for those guys I never consider myself a professional I always just consider myself as someone who trains and wants to do the best they can do so that's still sort of like a thing to me sometimes you wonder if you're dreaming or